Intimation of Acquisition under Regulation 30 of SEBI (LODR) Regulations 2015
Please be informed that the Board of Directors at their meeting dated 20.03.2019 accorded their approval for acquiring 100% equity shares of Manappuram Comptech & Consultants Ltd and to make it a wholly owned subsidiary company of the Company.
Material Details regarding the Equity/Proposed Acquisition as per SEBI Circular

India's leading gold loan Non-Banking Finance Company Manappuram Finance Ltd has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Autolite (India) Limited for a consumer and dealer financing arrangement.

Ashirvad valuation - Recently Manappuram infused about 264 Crore as additional equity into Ashirvad MF valuing the business at 2.2 times the book value. With the closing book value of Ashirvad being 782 Crore the value of the company roughly translate to Rs. 1700 Crore.

Branch expansion - Company is planning to open about 150 branches during the year 2019-20.

Insurance business foray - Currently Company is collecting third party insurance premium of about 150 Crore from its gold loan customers. Company is planning to start an credit life insurance company to bring this business inhouse. Total investment expected in this venture is about 200 Crore.

Acquisition of Manappuram asset finance company - The idea is to avoid conflict of interest considering the business is run by the same promoter group. The current loan book is less than 250 Crore and the book value is about 60 Crore. Mr. Nandakumar did not disclose the valuation assigned for this business.